the fbi's russia investigation. the president has long claimed the investigation of his campaign was a witch hunt and a hoax. contrary to the president's claim of a witch hunt the department of justice inspector general michael horowitz confirmed in a detailed report that the fbi was justified when it opened the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. the fbi learned in july 2016 that the trump campaign appeared to have advance knowledge of russia's plan to release, quote, thousands of e-mails end quote to harm hillary clinton and help trump. the fbi learned this one week after wikileaks published 20,000 e-mails that russia had stolen from the democratic national committee's hacked computers. the dnc hack and the possibility that the trump campaign knew of russia's plans to interfere in the 2016 election by releasing stolen e-mails created a significant counter intelligence concern. mr. comey has said that the fbi, quote, would have been derelict not to investigate, end quote. and i agree. spe

the fbi is an organization that is independent and flawed. >> i'm not necessarily worried about the fbi as a whole. i'm worried about you and what you certified that led the court to conclude that it had been mislead it repeatedly and due to the nature it could no longer trust with th the federal bureaf investigation needed so what you said and subsequent cases those i suggest to you that is an incredible dereliction of duty andmi a betrayal of your responsibility as the director of the fbi. if i could, one last thing i want to follow up on. the letter to the chair man from john radcliffe, which i know you have seen as you mentioned earlier, he says on september 7, 2016, u.s. intelligence officials forwarded and investigated referral to the fbi director james comey regarding the u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton's approval plan concerning donald trump and russian hackers as the means to distract the public from her use of a private mail server, did you open up an investigation? >> i don't know what that refers to. that doesn't ring a bell with me. >> you didn't receive any inv

. >>> former fbi director james khamenei testified on the republican led review of the fbi's handling of the russia investigation. the senate judiciary committee is looking into the origins of the steel dossier and foreign interference in u.s. elections. this is three hours and 45 minutes. >> thank you for coming and we will get started with of the the hearing. i want to thank mr. james comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. so, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the foreign intelligence surveillance act s a tool that has been around for a very long time for our intelligence community, the fbi, to make sure when foreign agents, terrorists or agents of a foreign government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the national security. i think this legislation goes all the way back t to the 70s, iand it's been used a lot. it's bee

more on newly declassified fbi documents showing the fbi was tracking the media and talking about mediaeaks behind the scenes. this is bigger than realized. was all this about validating and justifying surveillance on the trump campaign by using leaked store race this they were the source of when they could not verify things like hillary clinton's disinformation with her own shoe leather intelligence? is this now a bigger story about the media's own role in this trump russia narrative that traveled only one way, in one direction, since 2016. was the media manipulated? did they run with stories proven to be off the mark? we're on the story. top republican senators ron john and chuck grassley putting new heat. they are demanding fbi director christopher wray stop stonewalling us, give yous trump russia documents under subpoena we've been asking for weeks. former fbi official andrew mccabe's text messages and emails. police departments in these cities now bracing for election night chaos. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. melissa: okay.

it is showing fbi, top lawyers at the fbi, it is handwritten notes from the fbi's top lawyers vindicating's decision to toss out the case against general flynn. let's show the viewer what the fbi lawyers are saying at the time they're trying to go after flynn. that, quote, no reasonable prosecutor would charge flynn under the logan act. it would be quote an uphill battle. that general flynn's call with the russian ambassador was quote, not out of the ordinary t was similar to other presidential transition teams what they did. it would be the first time to try to use the logan act like this, devastating stuff. what was your take when you saw it? >> my take was poor general flynn and what a travesty of our justice system. you know, usually in investigations you get a mixture of evidence and you then make a judgment call. here the evidence, liz, is so overwhelmingly in favor of general flynn. that the professionals, the honest professionals in the fbi of whom there are many, indeed most, said no prosecution. i love that term, no reasonable prosecution. that means only unreasonable prosecutio

that's what the fbi tells us.t sophisticated country, the one that has the largest economies coming after us and they have a directive of what they want to do. they want to assist joe biden. exactly what big tech is doing as well. maria: i want to get into this further we'll take a short break but i've got to ask you about big caltech and what will be the fate of twitter and facebook blocking the new york post story about hunter biden, stay with us, kevin mccarthy and devon nunes, we'll be right back we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa working within amazon transportation services, i really

that's what the fbi tells us. the most sophisticated country, the one that has the largest economies coming after us and they have a directive of what they want to do. they want to assist joe biden. exactly what big tech is doing as well. maria: i want to get into this further we'll take a short break but i've got to ask you about big caltech and what will be the fate of twitter and facebook blocking the new york post story about hunter biden, stay with us, kevin mccarthy and devon nunes, we'll be right back a live bookkeeper is helping customize quickbooks for me. okay, you're all set up. thanks! that was my business gi, this one's casual. get set up right with a live bookkeeper with intuit quickbooks. maria: welcome back. we are back with house gop leader kevin mccarthy and congressman devon nunes. the ranking member on the house intelligence committee he is also the author of the new book "countdown to socialism" and i know devon nunes, you've talked about social media in this book, but congressman mccarthy i w

i think the fbi director has certainly made it clear, fbi agents across the country are trying to get inside these groups, trying to infiltrate, trying to gain information about what people could be up to. >> i have to pause. officials are briefing. >> without a unified front, including all levels of law enforcement focused on protecting the safety and well-being of our citizens. so today i am joined by u.s. attorney for the western district of michigan, andrew birch, u.s. attorney for eastern district of michigan, matthew snyder, any moment now we will have the fbi assistant special agent in charge, josh hoaxherst, and police colonel joe gasper. the interagency effort in tandem with my office culminated in the execution of several search warrants and arrests, including grand rapids, hartland, luther, canton, orion township, waterford, belleville, milford, cadillac, shelbyville, plain well, ovid, kalamazoo, clarkston, sterling heights, shelby township. our efforts uncovered elaborate plans to endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, government officials, and broader public. mul

and the fbi director serves extended terms. the president obviously fired g jim comey and christopher wray. our indication across the government is he's looking for a new fbi director one way or another after the election. >> josh dawsey, thank you. >> i want to go back to andrew mechan mccabe who's been listening in. we were just discussing christopher wray and as being a straight shooter and very clear tonight in his comments basically not sort of following the line of the very political director national intelligence in the way he was characterizing the interference that they say is going on from iran and russia. we'll try to get back with departme deputy director mccabe. tonight's other big story is president obama going after president trump in a way we have never heard. we'll have all that when we come back. i will send out an army to find you in the middle of the darkest night it's true, i will rescue you oh, i will rescue you such as high blood pressure,ve pdiabetes, and asthma.s this administration and senate republica

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. >> do you think communities of color are getting a fair shake from the fbi? >> no. >> members of thor mirror project sent this letter to director ray last month. in it they called for the fbi to be held accountable for its hiring and promotions practices through formal reporting to congress, the department of justice, and the office of inspector general. >> if the leaders, the senior executives, if they don't believe in it, then it's not going to happen. >> the fbi sent us a statement saying the diversity is quote, a core value. fbi officials told us that director ray was unable to schedule an interview before the report aired but that he was interested in addressing the former agents' concerns and he pledged to sit for an interview in the ♪ gillette proglide and proglide gel. five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke, while washing away dirt and oil. so you're ready for the day with a clean shave and a clean face. ♪ ♪ diddeodorants onlysome alumask odor? secret aluminum free helps eliminate odor instead of j

liz: what are you proposing to do about the fbi, we are hearing your breaking news involving fbi director wray. >> it leads to what we said back home, ray has been stonewalling and it seems like every time as a senate committee has asked for information and it seems like it takes forever and finally this last classification from john ratfliffe showed us away all the way back to hillary clinton. liz: are you asking for the fbi director to resign. >> yes. liz: who else is beside yourse yourself. >> i don't know they line up behind me because i've been asking for the last four or five months because i'm tired of christopher wray running the department and not doing the changes that he said he would make and every time we peel back he is protecting the upper management in the fbi, it is time for him to go in time for a change and that's what we repeated today it is time for him to resign. liz: were gonna stay on the story, we gotta move on with the supreme court nominee amy coney barrett, the senate democrats refused to meet with her, senator chuck schumer said to do so and it would legitimiz

after all the fbi, the intelligence community and his administration has found this out.e have official announcements, this is real, the president can say this tomorrow night -- as a matter of fact, if you put it in political terms, you can say democrats are trying to exaggerate the right-wing threat in this country and these things were coming from iran, the present might do something like that. the fact is these foreign countries, especially iran and russia are trying to sow discord here. i don't think they are trying specifically to elect one candidate for policy reasons, but they are trying to mess with us and always have been. >> martha: how can we quantify -- as you pointed out rightly, the last time around these exaggerations of how much of a player the russians were on facebook and twitter got really blown out of proportion. how do we know how big this issue is and how much influence it could have? it's easy to fast forward and to see people pointing back to this moment and it was the iranians, it was the russians again. >> given the intensity of our political mom

security adviser lida the fbi, the president asked the fbi director for his loyalty, the fbi director was keeping memos on every major interaction with the president whom he did not trust. detailed in the first 26 days of his administration donald trump has done enough to completely imperil his presidency. >> i spent a lot of time talking about how to tell this story. at one point i thought about doing it on the first 26 days of the administration. if you understand the first 26 days of the administration, how they dealt with this problem of national security adviser being compromised by a foreign adversary, if you understand that period of time you understand the trump presidency. by the time of the 20 sixth day, asked jim comey to end the flynn investigation, there's enough that has been created that when the memo is disclosed it would so rock the administration they will be forced to confront a true exit stencil threat of an investigation into them. where do you start the book or end the book, the first 26 days, the question of where to end the book. as i study the administration y

problem, demanding the fbi's attention. have attempted to disavow their own 2006 intelligence assessment, which is every sign of being an authentic document. they did provide us an unredacted version of that assessment, which i am releasing today to the public can better understand how the fbi understood the threat, and judged the subsequent actions, or lack there of accordingly. the redacted passages include warnings for the american people. the fbi warns, "white supremacist infiltration of law have passivean tolerance of racism within communities." the fbi also cautioned that "volunteercers might their professional resources to the white supremacist causes in which they racially sympathize." these are chilling conclusions. rather than spell out the threat for the american people, the fbi has suppressed them forom public view for 13 years. for the first time we can see the fbi believed internally that white supremacy and filtration law enforcement departments was a serious problem. a potential abuse of power and authoritie

we invited the fbi to come today. the bureau refused to come claiming it has nothing to say because they have no evidence that this is a widespread problem demanding the fbi's attention. what's more, they've attempted to disavow their own 2006 intelligence assessment which has every sign of being an authentic document. they did provide us an unredacted version of that 2006 assessment, which i'm releasing today so the public can better understand how the fbi understood this threat and judged its subsequent actions or lack thereof accordingly. the redacted passages include warnings for the american people. the fbi warned that, quote, white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement can result in abuses of authority and passive tolerance of racismism within communities served. the fbi also cautioned that police officers who are hostile to civil rights might, quote, volunteer their professional resources to the white supremacist causes with which they sympathize. these are chilling conclusions. but rather than clearly sp

ire the fbi director be't he supposed to independent from the president? guest: the director of the fbi has a degree of independence that is broader than a lot of officials in the executive ranch. it doesn't completely insulate him, nor should it. the director of the fbi serves at the pleasure of the president, and there should be a good working relationship in terms of the priorities between headead of the guy and -- of the fbi, the president, and the attorney general. if you don't have that, that could have problems that were to the local level if you don't have a good working relationship between the president, the attorney general, and the director of the fbi. in recent years have been pretty good about not exercising their power to relieve the head of the fbi simply over policy disputes. if the president is going to remove the director of the guy he must have a good -- the director of the fbi he must have a good reason for it, and that must be explained to congress. in regard to chris wray's comments in regards to dangers posed by different groups, vi

you to the fbi. if your husband is in a group that calls itself a militia or boyfriend, next time they go to a meeting you might never see them again except on visiting day in their prison. no matter how much donald trump might encourage them in a group like that, after the charges were announced today michigan's governor, gretchen whitmer made a statement that focused mostly on how difficult the year has been for the people of michigan and for this country in dealing with the challenges and life changes forced on us by the coronavirus. >> just last week the president of the united states stood before the american people and refused to condemn white supremacist and hate groups like these two militia groups. stand back and stand by he told them. stand back and stand by. hate groups heard the president's words not as a rebuke but as a rallying cry and a call to action. when our leaders speak, their words matter. they carry weight. when our leaders meet with and encourage domestic terrorists they legiti

black women make up 1% of the 13,000 fbi agents around the world. jennifer love retired in 2012 as an assistant director, reaching the highest rank of any black woman in the fbi's history. >> it became tiring. i would go in and everybody looked the same. white men with their dark suits on, white shirts, blue and red ties. >> love said she was a champion for the fbi. even appearing in recruiting ads. near of end of her career she saw the mandatory polygraph examinations for new recruits. >> i had a stack of letters from black and brown people who failed a polygraph and said they felt they were asked inappropriate questions. >> her proposal, videotape the polygraphs to create accountability. >> i can tell you internal to my division they were opposed to it. >> they didn't want to do it? >> they didn't want to do it. >> the number of black agents in the fbi hovered so low for so long they created this. a buffalo nickel. a challenge coin to commemorate the fact that black agents historically only made up 5% of the fbi, a number that is lower today. >> t

the fact the fbi didn't take what that american's concern was, the reason he took the to the fbi was twofold, troubling pornographic images and also because it was in the news and the fact the fbi did not bring that to the united states congress during the impeachment of the president of the united states is appalling and somebody needs to answer why that wasn't brought to the congress. this would have been in december of 19, the very time that the president was being impeached and it was delayed by nancy pelosi for 45 days. the fbi had plenty of time to get that to the united states senate, to say here are some emails involving joe biden, hunter biden money moving around and the other thing that can't be explained is if any american received $3.5 million for russian oligarchs for any reason the fbi would knock down the door a house or business and figure out why did somebody get 3 and a half million dollars and hunter biden has yet to tell us why that is, joe biden doesn't answer the question. the media continues to cover this up and the social media companies are covering this up.

the fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. >>> good morning. this hearing will come to order. i want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the national counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. this is our annual threat hearing. when i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think it's pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings we've held on so many of these things. before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written opening statement be entered in the recor record. if you consider these threats, cyberattacks and these cyberattacks, ramsonware, intellectual property threat, the hundreds of billions of dollars of economic loss due to intellectual property theft, potential

the involvement of the fbi jttf.hile there's no domestic terrorism statute in the united states, and there's several reasons for that, the involvement of the jttf and involvement of the state police tells me how seriously they took this plot because of those investigative techniques they can bring here. if this was an isis plot. the second thing is in the federal charging documents, i want people to understand and appreciate this. there was an informant, chuck, that wore a recording device on their person even after one of the people that was charged today allegedly went around the room, took everybody's cell phones and took them away from them. this meeting apparently happened in the basement that was accessed through a trap door in a store. and in that meeting they took away everyone's cell phones. that person who is an informant stayed in that meeting and recorded that meeting which was helpful for the charges being brought today. that takes two things. one, a lot of bravery and guts and, two, to put a informant i

the fbi is the primary agency responsible for investigating malicious cyber activity against election infrastructure, malign foreign influence operations and election related crimes like voter fraud and voter suppression or intimidation, and that is exactly what we have been doing. at the fbi, we are working closely with our intelligence community partners as well as our other federal, state and local partners to share information, bolster security, and identify and disrupt any threats. we are not going to tolerate foreign interference in our elections or any criminal activity that threatens the sanctity of your vote or undermines public confidence in the outcome of the election. when we see indications of foreign interference or federal election crimes, we are going to aggressively investigate and work with our partners to quickly take appropriate action. we are also coordinating with the private sector. both technology and social media companies, to make sure that their platforms are not used by foreign adversaries to spread misinformation and propaganda. -- disinformation and propa

turned over to fbi, but the fbi is -- has had it for almost a year now and has done nothing.thoughts about the fact that they have not acted at all. >> yeah. lou: doesn't the justice department have a division for public corruption? don't they have investigators that take a look at the obvious and then the begin an investigation and bring charges? we don't see it happen very often, but don't they have such a, such a mandate? >> well, of course. i mean, yeah. frankly, this shouldn't surprise us. this is the same fbi that didn't release the transcripts, it took ric grenell and john ratcliffe to get the information to us. what was crust wray doing all that -- chris wray doing all that time? all these people who for years told us they thought there was collusion when, in fact, when they testified and were under oath said there wasn't collusion. so, you know, this is start of par for the -- sort of par for the course with mr. wray and what's happened at the fbi under his reign. look, this is important information. i hope theying dig into it, i hope we get all the answers so the am

you have the fbi and cia, that must be disclosed. it is in the fbi rules among other things.they did not follow it. and when you publicly implied or discussed in a letter to him. hey, i helped you in the past, please come to me if you have any questions about this. this is ridiculous what was being released that you are some kind of spy. it withheld that information from the court . apparently there was an exchange within the fbi and the cia which the cia confirmed to the fbi you had been a source. there was the trigger that should've forced them to disclose is important information to the court. it might've been part say something seems a little funny here. why would a guy knows he's being watched but is helped us in the past be spying supposedly on behalf of russia. but instead, the fbi attorney is pleading guilty to this, and mse information and forged the documents and said that you had not been according to the cia. the past source. that's a guess makes everything fall apart in a very official way in terms of what they did to you. carter: is a great summary and again, th

again, this is one -- very powerful fbi attorney who was in this particular part of the charade. if you read closely the indictment and as you're referring to, me giving the heads up, the fbi, in that case, 2 days after the the defamatory article planted by the democrats in september 2016 on -- on sunday september 25th 2016, i sent a letter to then fbi director james comey just explaining the truth and trying to explain reality to this guy and i said at the end of this letter, you know, i've been in touch with you and been in touch with the cia going back a long time and please, if you will, you know, this is obviously how ridiculous these allegations are. if you have any remaining questions, if you have any sort of doubts whatsoever, do not hesitate to contact me, not only did they not only contact me during that period, over the 5 plus months following that is when mr. comey and sally yates submitted the first two false highly inaccurate fisa warrants to the foreign intelligence surveillance court in washington. and unfortunately not only were they not talking to me, they were

it comes from an fbi database.i is doing a good job of trying to figure out the exact number or at least the ballpark number of missing children but, as of, for example, in calendar year 2020, there are currently about 285,000 that have been reported missing this year. and we still have a bit of the year to go. so somewhere between 350 and 400,000 is probably a pretty good number if you want to get sort of a ballpark number for missing children in the united states. i tell you -- go ahead. elizabeth: finish your thought. go ahead. yeah i was going to say you mentioned as a lead-in, that we have recovered an agency about 1300 over the last five, fiscal years. one just ended of course. fy 2020, excuse me, 2020, we recovered 375 kids. i think one of the reasons that you were interested in talking was because of the big operation we had in northern georgia around the city of atlanta called operation not forgotten, which was a fantastic effort by a lot of people to go and recover about 26 missing children and then to co

and just fbi briefing to staff.bi briefing congress, a year after the fact that we knew the steele dossier was not reliable. >> first, let me say by describing it as a staff briefing, that is in no way to intended to suggest that that's not important. but second, as to disciplinary action, i believe the most senior officials involved in the investigation and including in that who participated in that briefing are all gone from the fbi. in some cases people have been fired. in other cases people have retired or resigned, all on my watch. as far as disciplinary action beyond that, every individual who's referenced in the inspector general's report at any level, even in passing, has been referred to our office of professional responsibility and our inspection division for possible disciplinary action. now, these tend to be people who are more at a line level and as far as disciplinary action towards them, na has lit standstill in order to accommodate mr. durham and his investigation at his request. certain steps we hav

is going on with the fbi?hings and none of them good. we rely on the fbi to keep americans safe and we have a situation now where they have failed miserably to do that job, they allowed the vice president, former vice president joe biden to go unnoticed as he and his family ran a corruption paper play scheme around the globe and when people tried to hand them evidence they turned away and sit on it for long enough now in the very last minute of the campaign we are seeing just how bad this was, were seen that joe biden knew about this, he facilitated it, he took meetings and there's evidence of crimes that are on a verified e-mail trail that down to the christological level we know is legitimate. it is disgraceful and we can't let the fbi get away with this work on behalf of the american people. lou: thanks to the terrific work of tucker carlson we now know a lot about tony bobulinski and his role as he stood there before the debate, the last presidential debate having to defend his name, his family's name agai

these newly-released texts show then-fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and then-fbi attorney lisa page about media reports unfavorable to donald trump. one text exchange shows that page forwarded mccaulk a law fair article -- mccabe a law fair article questioning whether trump was a russian agent. a newly-declassified fbi spread sheet shows the fbied had very little reason to ever believe christopher steele would be a credible source for anything, yet they chose to use him any and his phony dossier. that spread sheet was released, with redactions, but it shows how the fbi couldn't corroborate any of the dossier's claims and used their own media leaks to try to substantiate and build the credibility of their claims of trump-russia collusion. you know, the idea put forward by one hillary clinton. joining us now is "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon, author of "fallout: nuclear bribes, russian spies and the washington lies that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." this is, first, it's great to have you with us, john. >> thank you, lou. lou: this is, i think, a fascinating

the fisa court by fbi officials, john durham is also dealing with a former fbi director james comeyn testimony recently said about a half a dozen times he did not remember details of his trump pressure probe but somehow james comey remembered that biden did not talk about using obscure logan act which is never been enforced to go after general michael flynn out when it's in the fbi notes. durham is dealing with that too right? >> comey claims to have a photographic memory but if you look at all the testimony before congressional committees, it is just curious that he has convenient lapses of memory, whenever it comes to anything that can be incriminating to him or anything that could be positive from president trump, the clinton to have done this for year, hillary clinton did it, bill clinton was president and i think it's outrageous, how could comey forget that the fbi referral from the cia that hillary clinton personally approved a scheme to smear president trump to colluding the russians. how could he possibly forget that. liz: here is a big thing, we dig through the footnotes of

andrew mccabe was running the fbi.ct mccabe and an outside influence over the bureau at the time and he certainly had an agenda, his own personal political agenda so it is sad to see the fbi dragged into the politics of the situation. i feel bad for the men and women of the fbi who had to deal with this person. >> the alternative, do you believe comey being a lawyer at a pretty good lawyer, a very educated individual conveniently forgot key information on a very big investigation. >> no question about it. good lawyer lousy leader. his memory was so selective and his answers so carefully crafted it reminded me of bill clinton's testimony and hillary clinton's testimony were you just say i don't recall, i don't have any memory of that, don't have any details about that but it is absolutely ludicrous to think the director of the fbi wouldn't know more about the most important investigation the fbi ever handled. >> looking a portion of this letter on hillary clinton, the alleged approval by hillary clinton on july 20 sixth

an fbi subpoena shows the laptop and its original hard drive were taken, seized by the fbi in decemberd intriguingly, that subpoena came a day before the radical dems started their failed effort to impeach president trump. had it not been for the computer repair shop owner who backed up the laptop's hard drive, the contents of the computer likely would have never been seen again. at least seen by the american public. the smoking gun e-mail pulled from the laptop is a message sent to hunter biden by the number three executive at burisma. the april 17, 2015, e-mail reads this: dear hunter, thank you for inviting me to d.c. and giving me an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together. it's really an honor and pleasure. there's also a may 12, 2014, e-mail in which the same burisma executive asks hunter biden for, quote: advice on how under use your influence. end quote. at the time of those e-mails, hubber biden was paid up to $-- hunter biden was paid up to $50,000 a month by burisma, his father was the vice president of the united states and, clearly, pressured ukraine i

the fbi then -- chris wray came out and talked about the fbi being the primary agency.believe we have malcolm nance. let's see if malcolm nance is available. let's bring him in and get his comments. >> this is very fascinating -- >> what did you make of what you heard? >> well, just a few days after the director of national intelligence came out and said there was no evidence of russian interference in the 2020 election, we now have the director of the fbi plus the director of national intelligence putting out that they have positive, active intelligence, and most likely actionable intelligence showing that there was direct -- attempts to directly interfere with this election. i find it fascinating that they have both iran and russia. on one hand, iran has a robust cyber capability, but just a year ago there was an iranian intelligence -- i'm sorry, a russian intelligence group that actually pretended to be iranian. so the iranians could be doing this as a matter of just sowing chaos and extended their capabilities, so to speak. they could also be using it as an intelli

director of national intelligence and fbi director held a news conference wednesday evening on election security. he said voter registration information has been obtained by iran and russia in an attempt to push misinformation. here is the briefing. >> good evening. the president has instructed the intelligence and law enforcement communities to ensure the 2020 elections have the safest and most secure in the nation's history. we take that mandate and responsibility seriously. there's nothing more sacred than the fundamental democratic principle of one person one vote. it is our duty to ensure the sanctity of the u.s. elections that includes ensuring the security of the voting systems. the intelligence community as well as to identify threats and assess the intention, capabilities and actions of foreign adversaries. our duty also includes an empowering the american people to understand information or perhaps more accurately disinformation that they are seeing particularly on the internet and make informed decisions for themselves. with that in mind we would like to alert the public that